| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. These labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you ? But... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 616 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. These labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you? But... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 624 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. These labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you ? But... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly...meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. These labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your highness, for what can be worthy of you 1 But... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...the cause that hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes, set down rather signi" ficantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. " The...meditations, " though conveyed in the form of epistles. These " labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your " highness, for what can be worthy of you... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...the cause that hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes, set down rather signi" ficantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. " The...meditations, " though conveyed in the form of epistles. These " labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your a highness, for what can be worthy of you... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...the cause that hath made me choose " to write certain brief notes, set down rather signi" ficantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. " The...meditations, " though conveyed in the form of epistles. These " labours of mine, I know, cannot be worthy of your ** highness, for what can be worthy of you... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service . which is the cause that hath made me choose to write certain brief notes, set down rather significantly than curiously, which I have called Essays. 1 be word is late, but the thing is ancient ; for Seneca's epistles to Lucilius, if you mark them well,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service ; which is the cause that hath made me choose to write rotection and favour, These labours of mine I know cannot be worthy of your Highness ; for what can be worthy of you ? But... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...affairs, nor in regard of my continual service, which is the cause that hath made me chnse to write ing, as well amongst" him, as he lay along Under...place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunter arc but essays, that is, dispersed meditations, though conveyed in the form of epistles. "£ This invaluable... | |
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